Example sentences for: evocative

How can you use “evocative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But in an evocative (if self-serving) piece in The New Yorker , Raphael notes that his original script was ultimately "blanched of all the duplicity that made it alive" for him, that at every turn Kubrick took out details of personality in pursuit of an underlying archetype.

  • You’ll also find evocative posters and black-and-white photos of Fidel, Che, and company.

  • They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.

  • The most absorbing sections chart the struggle to power with a variety of illustrations: countless maps, evocative photos of both torture victims and triumphal scenes, and assorted personal memorabilia from passports to bloodstained clothes.

  • Her appreciation of the em-bra'd breast manages to be both appropriate and evocative, if not titillating.


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